Episode 10: The Linguistic Divide of Pants

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Welcome to the March Episode of the SF Squeecast! Episode 10, The Linguistic Divide of Pants. This episode brought together Squeecast regulars Lynne M. Thomas, Seanan McGuire, and Paul Cornell, along with our special guest Nebula and Campbell Award nominee Saladin Ahmed, author of Throne of the Crescent Moon.

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Additional credits: Special thanks to our webmaster, Dmitri Zagidulin, our technical producer David McHone-Chase, Jeff Bohnhoff at Mystic Fig Studios for the instrumentals of music by Seanan McGuire, Katy Shuttleworth, who made our ROCKING logo, and Michael D. Thomas for general administrative support.

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So, I think this was the episode which randomly mentioned the Green Lama. I had never heard of this pulp hero, and “studied in Asia” should have been enough to differentiate “Green Lama” from “Green Llama.” However my mind made other connections.

With a linguist wife and numerous multilingual coworkers, I find myself surrounded by obscure language humor. We’re all working on a project in the office which managed to involve Alpaca (The infrastructure for http://me.novica.com/cristinajackson/cristinas-gallery/alpaca/140/ ) The conversation turned to a Chinese word for Llama, which roughly translates as “Grass Mud Horse.” A very similar sounding (I can’t tell the difference) Chinese word translates to “F**k Your Mother.”

In my head, I thus renamed “The Green Lama” to “The Green Mother F**cker.” So, who wants to place bets on whether this was a VERY clever way to pull one over on the censors for 70 years?

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